Today the Federal Circuit released two nonprecedential opinions in cases appealed from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board. The court also released three nonprecedential orders dismissing appeals. Here are the introductions to the opinions and links to the dismissals.
Healthier Choices Management Corp. v. Philip Morris Products S.A. (Nonprecedential)
Appellant Healthier Choices Management Corp. (“Healthier Choices”) appeals from a final written decision of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”), in which the Board: (1) held claims 1–8 of U.S. Patent No. 10,561,170 unpatentable as anticipated by the asserted prior art, and (2) denied Healthier Choices’ Revised Contingent Motion to Amend as to proposed substitute claims 9–16. For the following reasons, we affirm.
Watson v. Department of the Treasury (Nonprecedential)
Andre Watson (“Watson”) seeks review of the final decision of the Merit Systems Protection Board (“Board”), which sustained the decision of the United States Department of the Treasury (“agency”) to remove him from his position as Police Officer with the agency’s United States Mint facility at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. Watson v. Dep’t of the Treasury, No. CH-0752-20-0450-I-2 (M.S.P.B. Aug. 15, 2023) (“Final Order”). For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the Board’s final decision.